Post #518710 by DejaVoodoo on Sat, Mar 20, 2010 11:47 AM

On 2010-03-20 03:13, hewey wrote:
Make sure you share the pics :D

Oh I will! You can bet on that!

Well, I had a change of heart and decided against the green chenille upholstery fabric background. It's just too darn plain, as interesting as it is, and I decided that tapa cloth is the way to go, after receiving the Ken Darby & Alfred Newman "Ports Of Paradise" album (the artwork is covered in tapa).

Since I can't find/buy/make some bamboo poles on the cheap in MARCH (if it were closer to summer, I'd just behead a bunch of Tiki torches and be done with it!) I figured, as long as I'm staging a Tiki photo, I might as well have something authentic looking that's without a doubt Polynesian. The brown tapa print bark cloth I found online is awesome!

As it is, the background I'm designing is going to be a mash up of traditional artifacts with a nod towards the more commercial side of Tiki that everyone goes crazy for at backyard BBQs. I'm confident that I've figured out a way to pay homage to both and STILL come up with a final product that is dark, moody, and respectful to the origins of Tiki. We'll see, though. Stay tuned. I'm planning the photoshoot for sometime in April. Until then...

[ Edited by: DejaVoodoo 2010-03-20 11:47 ]